Language:Yele

Yele
Yélî Dnye
Lineage	Unclassified Yele
Native to	Rossel Island, Louisiade Archipelago, Papua New Guinea
ISO 639 code	yle (639-3: yle)
Cited works written in this language
None
Tovasala words derived from this language
woade
Notes
From the Wikipedia article's "Classification" section: For now, the language is best considered unclassified. It has been classified as a tentative language isolate that may turn out to be related to the Anêm and Ata language isolates of New Britain (in a tentative Yele – West New Britain family). Typologically it is more similar to the Oceanic languages of southern New Guinea than to the isolates of New Britain. Word order tends to be SOV (verb-final). Stebbins et al. (2018) classifies Yélî Dnye as an isolate. They explain similarities with Austronesian as being due to contact and diffusion.
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